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SARAJEVO 2017

Sarajevo announces its Documentary Competition

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- The selection includes four world premieres

Sarajevo announces its Documentary Competition
Avec l'amour by Ilija Cvetkovski

The Sarajevo Film Festival (11-18 August) has announced its Documentary Competition, in which 14 titles from Southeast Europe will vie for the Heart of Sarajevo.

In addition to four world premieres from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia, the selection includes Macedonian filmmaker Ilija Cvetkovski's Avec l'amour [+see also:
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, which world-premiered at Hot Docs; Serbian director Boris Mitić's In Praise of Nothing [+see also:
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and The Family [+see also:
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by Slovenian filmmaker Rok Biček (best known for Class Enemy [+see also:
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), which will both first bow at Locarno; No Place for Tears by Turkey's Reyan Tuvi and Ultra [+see also:
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by Hungary's Balázs Simonyi (both premiered at Visions du Réel); City of the Sun [+see also:
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by Georgia's Rati Oneli (Berlinale); Planet Petrila [+see also:
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by Romania's Andrei Dascalescu (IDFA); Playing Men [+see also:
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by Slovenia's Matjaž Ivanisin, which just screened this week at FID Marseille; Mr. Gay Syria [+see also:
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by Turkey's Ayşe Toprak (Sheffield Doc/Fest); and Kinders [+see also:
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by Austria's Arash and Arman T Riahi.

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Here is the full list of titles in Sarajevo’s Documentary Competition: 

Guidance Through the Black Hole [+see also:
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interview: Zlatko Pranjić
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– Aleksandar Nikolić, Zlatko Pranjić (Serbia/ Bosnia and Herzegovina/UK)
Home – Zdenko Jurilj (Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina) (medium-length film)
Undercovered [+see also:
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– Nejra Latić Hulusić, Sabrina Begović Ćorić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (medium-length film)
When Pigs Come [+see also:
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interview: Biljana Tutorov
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  Biljana Tutorov (Serbia/Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina) 
Avec l’amour [+see also:
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interview: Ilija Cvetkovski
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– Ilija Cvetkovski (Macedonia)
City of the Sun [+see also:
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– Rati Oneli (Georgia/USA/Qatar/the Netherlands)
The Family [+see also:
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– Rok Biček (Slovenia)
In Praise of Nothing [+see also:
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interview: Boris Mitić
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 – Boris Mitić (Serbia/Croatia/France)
Kinders [+see also:
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– Arash T Riahi, Arman T Riahi (Austria)
Mr. Gay Syria [+see also:
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– Ayşe Toprak (Turkey/France/Germany)
No Place for Tears – Reyan Tuvi (Turkey)
Planet Petrila [+see also:
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– Andrei Dascalescu (Romania)
Playing Men [+see also:
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– Matjaž Ivanišin (Slovenia/Croatia)
Ultra [+see also:
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– Balázs Simonyi (Hungary/Greece)

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